Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Genius is talent set on fire.

You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time.

A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

The body is a rock; the arms are snakes

When we exhale, a tree breathes in.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.